Millennials' jobs outsourced to their grandparents

Businesses adapting to Obamacare by hiring exempt over 65-year-old seniors

Published: 08/08/2014 at 11:47 PM

(American Thinker) The Los Angeles Times ran a story titled “Freelance Workers a Growing Segment of California Economy” lamenting that millennials working part-time costs California $17 billion a year in tax revenue.

Apart from the Times’ bizarre comment that young people are somehow shirking their responsibility to pay more taxes by working odd jobs to survive, the real issue is that higher tax rates, labor rules and anti-business regulations, and Obamacare mandates have made hiring millennials for full-time work much more expensive. Businesses are increasingly adapting to higher government costs burdens by hiring the over 65-year-old seniors who are exempt from ObamaCare.